Jerry Sandusky leaves a Centre County court hearing in January 2013. (MICHAEL KUBEL, THE MORNING CALL)

Lori Falce,Of the Centre Daily Times

Same pattern, alleged new victim in Jerry Sandusky sex abuse case.

Another lawsuit has been added to the stack in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal.

A suit was filed Aug. 18 in Philadelphia County Court, naming former Penn State assistant football coach Sandusky, the university and the Second Mile charity as defendants.

Attorney Bret J. Southard of Williamsport filed on behalf of the plaintiff, referred to as "D.F." in an effort to protect the identity of the accuser, who was a child at the time of the abuse.

Southard confirmed to the Centre Daily Times that his client represents a new case, not one of the ones previously brought forward after the scandal broke.

In the court documents, Southard tells a story of a boy who was 8 years old when he met Sandusky in 2004. He participated in a variety of Second Mile programs over the next eight years.

It was in 2008 or 2009, the lawsuit states, that Sandusky "traveled to plaintiff's hometown in Pennsylvania for the specific purpose of taking [him] on a shopping spree."

The trip involved buying the boy Nike pants, shoes and shirts. Southard said it also involved oral sex.

The date of the second incident named in the lawsuit was Aug. 30, 2008. The plaintiff's attorney said Sandusky took the boy to the Penn State-Coastal Carolina University game. The court documents tell of a 12-year-old boy leaving the game early and being taken to Sandusky's College Township house, where he was allegedly sodomized.

The case fits into the timeline of Sandusky's documented abuses. It is around the time that the state attorney general's office began its investigation in 2008, and the grand jury investigation that started in 2009.

The filing also alleges that the boy figures into evidence confiscated from Sandusky's home during the investigation, specifically as one of a number of Second Mile participants on a list with check marks next to some of the boys' names. State police contacted his parents, the documents say.

Second Mile and Penn State are targeted, according to the suit, for negligence in failing to properly vet Sandusky before allowing him around children. The suit also alleges a conspiracy of silence that deliberately allowed Sandusky to continue his patterns of abuse.

The suit asks for $550,000 from the three defendants, plus punitive damages and interest.

Representatives of Penn State declined to comment on the case. Dave Woodle, the CEO of Second Mile, said the charity is "aware of the filing and anticipate a lawsuit to be served."

In January 2013, Second Mile was sued in federal court by Victim No. 6 — as one of the young men victimized by Sandusky was referred to in court documents — for abuse he suffered in 1998 when he was 11.

A Centre Daily Times article published in May about Second Mile's ultimately successful bid to transfer funds to Arrow Family and Child Ministries, of Houston, to continue programs noted that "all claims made by Sandusky victims have been settled or dismissed," except for those brought by Victim No. 6.

In 2013, Penn State reached settlements with 26 men at a cost of $59.7 million. Those victims included Sandusky's adopted son, Matt.

Sandusky, 70, was convicted in 2012 of 45 counts of abuse. He is incarcerated at Greene State Prison, two years into a mandatory 30-year sentence.